Firm and Provider News

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in late July adopted the most significant reforms to executive compensation in the past 14 years. CCH is now publishing Executive Compensation and Related-Party Disclosure: SEC Rules and Explanation, a comprehensive book providing the latest practical guidance to help securities compliance officers and other...

Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP has announced that Gina M. Smith has joined the firm as of counsel in the White Collar Litigation Group in the Philadelphia office.
Prior to joining Ballard Spahr, Ms. Smith served for 18 years in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office as an assistant district attorney responsible for the investigation...

DataCert, Inc., a leading provider of electronic invoicing and legal spend management solutions, announced that General Counsel Mark Poag was selected as the 2006 Outstanding Solo Corporate Counsel by the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Houston Business Journal. The award, previously categorized as 'Best Solo General Counsel,' recognizes expertise...

Stradley Ronon attorneys Steven B. Davis and David T. Garnes were recently selected as 2006 Pennsylvania 'Lawyers on the Fast Track' by The Legal Intelligencer, a Philadelphia-based daily legal newspaper.
Mr. Davis and Mr. Garnes were recognized, along with 43 other Pennsylvania attorneys under the age of 40, as future leaders of the state's legal...

King & Spalding LLP has announced the expansion in New York City of its intellectual property practice with the arrival of partner Kenneth H. Sonnenfeld, an authority on biotechnology, pharmaceutical and chemical patent prosecution, counseling and diligence.
Mr. Sonnenfeld brings to the firm's New York office the new capability of patent...

Kirkpatrick's New York office recently welcomed Sandy K. Feldman to its M&A practice. Mr. Feldman focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other business relationships and related financings. He also has experience representing purchases of distressed companies, including acquisitions of assets in Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

Goodwin Procter LLP recently announced the addition of two directors to its professional staff: Marijane Benner Browne as director of lateral partner recruiting and Anne Stemlar as director of information resources.
Ms. Benner Browne will oversee all aspects of the firm's lateral partner recruitment. She joins Goodwin Procter from Bingham McCutchen,...

The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP has announced that Frank S. Vellucci, Robin Mizrahi, Ayse Yksel, Igor Muszynski and Konstantin O. Konstantinov have been named LLP partners in the firm.
Mr. Vellucci, a member of the Corporate group in New York City, has extensive experience with corporate partnering in the life sciences field....

Akerman Senterfitt continues to grow in Tampa with the additions of L. Joseph Shaheen Jr., shareholder; Mitchell Robiner, of counsel, and Chaila Restall, associate, to the firm's Litigation practice. The three new attorneys join Akerman Senterfitt from Gardner Shaheen Tamargo.

Douglas R. Burnett, a partner with Holland & Knight LLP, has been appointed co-chair of the Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee of the New York County Lawyers' Association.
Mr. Burnett practices primarily in the areas of telecommunications (submarine cables) and international and maritime law litigation. He has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court...

David H. Eisenstat, a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and the chair of its national health industry practice, has been named one of 10 Outstanding Hospital Lawyers of 2006 by Nightingale's Healthcare News.

The American Arbitration Association (AAA) and Cybersettle, Inc. have announced a strategic alliance which will allow their clients to use both companies' alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and online dispute resolution (ODR) services.

SPi's Legal Division has announced that Sally Lockett has joined the company as Regional Sales Manager for the Western region.
Ms. Lockett is heading the SPi office in Los Angeles and is responsible for marketing SPi's suite of e-Discovery services as well as the company's new hybrid coding solution. She will also coordinate regional trade shows and...

Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP has announced the launch of DelawareIPlaw.com, the first Delaware based IP blog. Attorneys Karen Keller, Andrew Lundgren and Chad Stover, of the Intellectual Property & Litigation Section, will author the site postings.

Lawyer Links, LLC has announced that Ozmosys, Inc., an Internet media company specializing in providing email consolidation of high-value content, will aggregate the latest need-to-know information from LawyerLinks Advantage into their knowledge-base. LawyerLinks is the industry's first topic-oriented research tool providing corporate attorneys with...

Five Kelley Drye Collier Shannon lawyers were included in The Best Lawyers in America list for the Washington/Virginia/Maryland area in rankings that appeared in the October 1 Washington Post. Partners Lewis Rose, John E. Villafranco and Ivan J. Wasserman were named in advertising law, William C. MacLeod was named in antitrust, Barry J. Pollack was named...

Fios Inc., a leading electronic discovery services provider, and Nexidia, a provider of phonetic-based technology for audio search, have announced a strategic partnership designed to help clients more effectively and efficiently review and analyze electronic audio files as part of discovery.
The two companies are extending Nexidia's phonetic audio...

Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP has announced that Gina M. Smith has joined the firm as of counsel in the White Collar Litigation Group in the Philadelphia office.
Prior to joining Ballard Spahr, Ms. Smith served for 18 years in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office as an assistant district attorney responsible for the investigation...

Proskauer Rose LLP has announced that Paul Salvatore and Lawrence R. Sendak, partners in the firm's Labor and Employment Law Department, have been inducted into the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers as Fellows.

Eleven Stradley Ronon partners were named to the recently released 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Notably, Stradley Ronon Banking Practice Group Co-chair David F. Scranton was named for more than 10 years in his specialty of banking law.
Selection for Best Lawyers, representing 80 specialties in all 50 states, is based on a peer-...